Austin, TX. I architect and operate AI agent systems — and ship real products with them.
Most of the code in my repos is agent-built by design: I do the architecture, review, and operations; a self-hosted fleet of AI agents does the execution. Running that loop well — reliably, safely, in production — is the craft I care about.
The load-bearing design is mine: the SSE ↔ LangGraph streaming bridge in the Council Terminal, the SQLite kanban dispatch schema and multi-provider failover routing, and the money-gate model that lets agents act autonomously only under a hard spend ceiling. The Council Terminal spells out what's mine vs. what's upstream explicitly.
A self-hosted multi-agent fleet (24/7, on macOS). Role-specialized agents — project management, web dev, finance, comms — with launchd-supervised gateways, kanban-based task dispatch, and multi-provider model routing with automatic failover (Claude, Gemini, DeepSeek). Human-in-the-loop gates on anything that spends money.
Things the fleet ships and operates:
- 🛍️ BusyBird — 3D-printed jewelry storefront (plus an Etsy channel): Next.js App Router, Stripe Checkout, Tailwind 4 → repo
- 📈 Council Terminal — a retro PC-98 anime terminal for the TradingAgents multi-agent LLM framework: an eight-agent council researches a ticker, the bull and bear debate live (SSE), and the judge rules BUY/SELL/HOLD → live demo
- 🌐 Client & personal sites — designed, built, deployed, and DNS-managed end-to-end on Vercel by the web-dev agent team
- 💬 SMS agent on Twilio behind a Cloudflare tunnel
- 🧾 Ceiling-gated autonomous payments with receipts reported to Telegram
- 📖 agent-fleet-ops — the open field manual for running the fleet: launchd supervision, SQLite kanban dispatch, multi-provider failover, hard gates on money
TypeScript · Next.js · React · Node · Python · FastAPI · SQLite · launchd · Vercel · Stripe · Twilio · Claude · Gemini · DeepSeek
zacharybird.com · LinkedIn · email
Open to AI product / applied-AI / founding roles.